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A PAIR OF PORTUGUESE COLONIAL HARDWOOD ARMCHAIRS
Late 19th Century
Each with outscrolled back, and trellis ratan seat framed by a bamboo border, the pierced entwined dragons and foliate arms above a carved frame with flowerheads, foliate scrolls and stiff-leaf border, the front-rail with beaded foliate-scrolled and hatched motifs, on pierced supports carved with elephants in tropical vegetation joined by shaped floral stretchers, the caning distressed (2)
Late 19th Century
Each with outscrolled back, and trellis ratan seat framed by a bamboo border, the pierced entwined dragons and foliate arms above a carved frame with flowerheads, foliate scrolls and stiff-leaf border, the front-rail with beaded foliate-scrolled and hatched motifs, on pierced supports carved with elephants in tropical vegetation joined by shaped floral stretchers, the caning distressed (2)